Didier Rykner

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  • A Bolognese painting for Beauvais

    The Musée départemental de l’Oise (now known by the rather inelegant acronym Mudo) has a collection of 17th- and 18th-century Italian paintings, much of which was built up in the second half of the…

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  • A first visit to the restored Notre-Dame

    In recent months, the restoration of Notre-Dame has restored the building’s familiar silhouette to the Paris skyline. The spire is rising again, exactly like the one that disappeared in the fire,…

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  • "Stay Together... Or Else!"

    For weeks, a number of journalists who had followed the Notre-Dame construction site closely, like the author of these lines, had been asking to be allowed to visit the restored cathedral before the…

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  • Let’s keep the stained glass and recreate the decor!

    Nous publierons demain ce que nous avons pensé de la restauration intérieure de Notre-Dame de Paris (spoiler : c’est superbe), mais nous voudrions revenir ici sur l’affaire des vitraux du bas-côté…

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  • The Tavitian donation at the Clark Art Institute (3)

    Dans cette troisième brève consacrée au legs d’Aso Tavitian au Clark Institute, nous nous intéresserons aux tableaux néerlandais du début du XVIIe siècle, en commençant par trois œuvre de Joachim…

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  • Colmar acquires an early 16th-century panel

    The vagaries of history have frequently dispersed groups of paintings, thus impoverishing art history and condemning these works, which formed a coherent whole, to no longer being fully understood.…

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  • Update on the Notre-Dame stained-glass windows affair

    On 21 November, the ‘artistic commission’ set up by the Ministry of Culture met to choose the artist who would - if all goes wrong - create new stained glass windows for Notre-Dame cathedral. They…

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  • Liners 1913-1942. A transatlantic aesthetic

    The exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes is remarkably well staged, with superb works of art to discover. It is therefore well worth a visit, but it should be pointed out that those…

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